One of the first things I teach athletes who I work with on mental toughness is that mental toughness is not just an idea, it’s a practice. Without defining the practice of mental toughness specifically, athletes have no practical changes to focus on during their training. To teach the specific practices of mental toughness, I […]
Is the goal of practice the ability to tell others that you practiced? Obviously not. But for most young athletes this is the outcome. How about coaches? Is the goal of practice to practice for two hours or do a specific number of reps? I hope not, because those aren’t good goals for practice either. […]
I don’t have to tell you about the importance of practice. That’s obvious. What’s not so obvious is why sometimes practice makes you better and sometimes it doesn’t. Well, today I came across an insightful article Learning to Learn by Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, a psychology professor at UCLA. Bjork shares a fundamental truth about practice […]